Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, released a pretty detailed video discussing the Google webspam team’s criteria for determining whether a link is considered a paid link or not. There are five basic criteria Google uses in this determination

Google is adding voice dictation and voice typing to Google Docs. A post by Marques Brownlee on Google+ shows screen shots of him seeing the voice button within the Google Docs menu.

Ah, Buzzfeed. You have provided me with so many moments of joy, like the time I ROFL’d all the way through your extensive analysis of Home Alone during the holidays.

“Can we increase our blog readership by 50% in the next 6 months?” If you’re a digital marketing or social media professional, questions like this are probably pretty familiar. For many companies, specific goals are a godsend since social media marketing is still a bit of an uncertainty.

On June 7, 2011, Google announced support for a new type of markup called the Authorship Tag. This was the rel=”author” tag

Lorem Ipsum is boilerplate text commonly used by the design community to illustrate how the text on a website or print design will look within the visual graphical creatives. It turned out that the boilerplate text of Lorem Ipsum was used on every webpage, according to Google.

Over the past few months, Google has been testing many, many layouts that made the search results look a bit easier to read by increasing the font size and removing some of the underlines for the hyperlinked content. It seems Google has increased those tests, as we are seeing more and more…

To strategize your PPC optimizations most effectively, it’s vital to ensure you also get a high-level view of how your account is doing. Here’s how you compare a variety of different KPIs to identify and prioritize the optimizations you can perform.

Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has finally added a full size scientific calculator to their search results. Daniel Rubino from WP Central first noticed this addition on Friday saying that now when you search for a math answer, not only do you get the answer, but you also get an interactive…

So much of search focuses on being found. But being found doesn’t do much good unless you’re also chosen